Re: Country Related: Christmas

Steg Belsky wrote:

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> In Hebrew, according to my dictionary, "christmas" is called _hhag
> hamolad_, which seems to mean "holiday of the birth"....although _molad_
> is an unusual form of the word - the correct term would be _leida_.
> _molad_ could be some kind of causative form, i'm not sure.
Molad does appear with the meaning "birth" - for example: molad
hayyareaH = the birth of the new moon.

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